Kitchen Porter

Thomas Franks Ltd.; Thatcham; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wider wallet scheme

Free meals on duty

Volunteers leave

Enhanced maternity leave

Cycle to work scheme

Recommend a friend bonus

Apprenticeship programme

Team & company social events

Employee assistance programme

Workplace pension

Career progression

Job summary

Thomas Franks Ltd. in Holyport seeks a Kitchen Porter to join our established team at a premier school location. The role involves maintaining high hygiene and cleanliness standards, supporting chefs with food preparation, and operating the kitchen’s dishwasher and heavy catering equipment.

The position is 45 hours per week, term-time plus 38 weeks per year, with benefits including free parking on site. Experience in pot wash is preferred but not essential; we value a can-do attitude,

Qualifications

• Experience of pot wash duties would be an advantage.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Great team player.
• Able to help Chefs with some food prep.
• Maintain high standards of cleanliness at all times.
• Clean and maintain all kitchen equipment.
• Operate industrial dishwasher.

Responsibilities

• Keep kitchen hygienic and safe to high standards.
• Assist chefs with food prep when needed.
• Ensure cleanliness of work areas and equipment.
• Operate the industrial dishwasher and maintain dishwashing area.

Skills

Pot wash

Customer service

Team player

Food prep support

Cleanliness

Equipment cleaning

Dishwasher operation

Can-do attitude

Organisation

Job description

Kitchen Porter Holyport Contract: Full Time, Permanent
Salary: £24000
Hours: 45 per week

A co-educational day and boarding school for students aged 11 to 19 years in Holyport, Berkshire. Catering for 700 students and teachers daily. We offer a core feeding of breakfast, lunch, supper, morning snack and afternoon snack with small amounts of hospitality daily. This is a term-time plus contract working 38 weeks per year plus Easter and summer school. This is a 7-day operation so working pattern will be 5 days out of 7. Additional benefit to this location is free parking on site.

We currently have a fantastic opportunity for a Kitchen Porter to join our established & friendly team at our prestigious location in Holyport.

You'll be playing a big part in keeping the kitchen hygienic, safe, and up to our very high standards of cleanliness.

Key skills:

• Experience of pot wash duties would be an advantage
• Excellent customer service skills
• Great team player
• Be able to help the Chefs with some food prep
• Ensure high standards of cleanliness at all times
• Clean and maintain all kitchen equipment
• Clean allocated pieces of heavy catering equipment using instructions and cleaning materials including air filter and extraction systems.
• Operate industrial dishwasher

We are looking for:

• Kitchen Porter experience is preferred, but not essential.
• Can do attitude.
• Organisation Skills.

Knowledge / competencies:

• Ability to demonstrate reasonable / good understanding and use of verbal English.
• Ability to demonstrate reasonable / good standard of written English and reading skills.
• Similar experience of customer and / or food preparation environment is preferred

Benefits

• Wider wallet scheme (discounts at major retailers, restaurants, gyms etc).
• Free meals on duty
• Volunteers leave - up to one day per year.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Recommend a friend bonus.
• Unrivalled individual training and development.
• Well established apprenticeship programme.
• Team & company social events.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Workplace pension.
• Excellent career progression within a leading independent contract caterer.

About us

Thomas Franks is a founder led, fresh food catering business with a focus on excellence and service delivered with individuality, passion and style. We are unique in every approach and our clients, and our people are paramount to our daily success.

Disclaimer

All applicants must be able to demonstrate that they have the Right to Work in the UK to be considered for this role.

An enhanced DBS, Identity & reference checks (covering the last five years) will form part of the selection process. As an organisation using the Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) Disclosure service to assess applicants' suitability for positions of trust, Thomas Franks Ltd complies fully with the DBS Code of Practice and undertakes to treat all applicants for positions fairly. We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and undertake not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a Disclosure based on conviction or other information revealed. However, for any post in a school please be aware that any application is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such any criminal conviction, caution or bind-over must be declared.

Diversity and Inclusion at Thomas Franks

We actively encourage applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds and continue to develop a culture of growth and inclusion and would like to invite applications from groups who are currently under-represented, because we believe greater diversity leads to exceptional results and provides a better working life.